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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Friendship Soup
Learners learn creative cooking. In this early childhood lesson plan, students children work together to plan, buy, and prepare a soup for their lunchtime meal.
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Adequate Standard of Living: Children's Rights
Students and parents participate in a variety of activities designed to explore the issue of every person's right to adequate housing. They make butter, make models of different types of housing, read books, discuss the rights and...
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Musical Instruments
Mix it up and engage learners in a lesson on music and physical science. Using cups, strings, guitars, and voice, the class will experiment with sound vibration and frequency. They'll use each instrument and fill out a worksheet that...
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Memorial Quilt
Students explore the significance of memorials in the creation of their own memorial for the victims of 9/11. Through brainstorming and class discussion, they identify the characteristics of a memorial. Students use construction paper...
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How is a Human Vacation Like an Animal Migration?
Students compare animal migrations with human vacations. They consider the preparations involved, the purposes of travel and the consequences of any mistakes.
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Food From Around the World
Learners identify foods from around the world. In this multicultural lesson, students use Internet resources to research a specific country and the foods which are popular. Learners collect a single recipe to combine with recipes from...
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Sight Words: Printing Practice 4
In this early childhood sight words printing practice activity, students read and trace the 10 sight words. The words are land, different, home, us, move, try, kind, hand, picture, and again.
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Learning About Pets
Students study different pets. In this pets activity, students look at pictures of animals and identify different pets. They look at homes for pets and color pictures of animals that can be considered pets.
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Where We Live
Learners become aware of the different homes in which people may live. They create a simple bar graph to compare the dwellings of their classmates. Students draw pictures of their own home and describe the details of the home to be...
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Animal Habitats
Students study the word habitat and its meaning. They also identify that in order for something to be classified as a habitat there needs to be the proper shelter, food, water, and space.
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Investigating Earth's Materials
First graders compare and contrast water from different sources. After collecting water from various sources, 1st graders create a list of observable properties of the water. Students then pour the water into a filter and observe the...
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Teaching Economics As If People Mattered
Students work together to brainstorm and answer questions related to economics. They compare and contrast the different types of wealth. They discuss how wealth is different than income.
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Insects
Young scholars work in groups to investigate the concept of insects. They participate in a variety of activities that include the gathering of samples and making observations like identifying different body parts. The lesson integrates...
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Describing Situations Using Integers
For this math worksheet, students answer the eight questions that are focused upon using integers. The tasks are meant to be done at home with your family.
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Bread, Bread, Bread Activity Card
In this language arts activity, students respond to a book called Bread, Bread, Bread by completing an activity at home. Students taste 3 bread items mentioned in the book and record how they thought it tasted and whether or not they...
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I Like Books Activity Card
In this reading learning exercise, students respond to the book I Like Books by completing an activity at home with a parent. Students read 5 questions about books and parents write down the answers.
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What Will the Weather Be Like Today? Activity Card
In this reading worksheet, students respond to the book What Will the Weather Be Like Today? by completing an activity card at home with a parent. Students look at 6 pictures of weather conditions on the chart and record the dates on...
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Gender and Work
Students examine different places where economic activity takes place, and jobs done by men and women. They explain factors underlying allocation of jobs done by men and women in different societies .
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Put Your Heart Into It
First graders sort Valentine candies according to kind. Data is inserted into a spreadsheet and displayed in various graphic formats.
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What Configurations Work to Light a Bulb?
Learners explore simple electrical circuits. Students experiment, using different configurations, to determine what is necessary to compeete a circuit. Learners observe similarities between arrangements that work and differences in...
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Safety
Students investigate the concept of voltage and electricity. They differentiate between an insulator and a conductor in the context of using electrical safety with the help of a doll house. Then students pretend the doll lives in a real...
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LA CENERENTOLA (Cinderella)
Students formulate how to make puppets and realize that puppetry, like opera, is another kind of theater. They gain deeper knowledge of the characters in Rossini's La Referentially. Students use this concept to make decisions about...
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Sharing Our World
In this science related worksheet, students explore how we share the planet with a variety of different animals. Students then write the first letter of each of the five animals shown in the blanks next to each picture.
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Conducting A Survey
Students identify the types of information gathering styles and different surveying styles. They distribute a survey around your school to determine the different forms of transportation used to get to school.